Handywomen in Tajikistan
The movie is a short presentation of a UNDP project in Dushanbe and Jilikul in Tajikistan.
It's a pilot project under the program on SE4ALL of the Istanbul Regional Hub and is implemented via cooperation between UNDP Tajikistan and UNDP Croatia – representing a pilot model for East2East exchange on Sustainable Energy Solutions between countries. This is just the start of it.
Today in Tajikistan, water is heated with firewood, which both takes time and contributes to the deforestation that is wreaking havoc on the country (70% of the trees are gone). According the fact that around one million men work abroad (largely in Russia), the pilot project was designed to focus on the women who remain behind.
First there was a training for trainers in the capital Dushanbe, in which 12 people from private companies and the university were shown how to produce a simple solar thermal system.
Later, 15 women have joined the workshop in the village of Jilikul (next to the Afghan border) to build their own solar hot water system and take them home for use.
There was material left and the production of the systems is still ongoing in the community of Jilikul, which makes the project sustainable and eligible for further development.
Thanks to all that participated in the project.
Thanks to the lovely people of Jilikul.
More about the project will be shown parallel to its development at:
europeandcis.undp.org
Music and video produced and edited by Seiden Suppe (Marko Capek):
soundcloud.com/mcapek